Dynamis LLP

White-Collar Crime

Founding Partner

Eric Rosen, a graduate of Harvard University and Columbia Law School, is a nationally recognized former federal and state prosecutor based in Boston and New York. Eric has a nationwide practice which focuses on white-collar criminal defense, corporate investigations, and complex civil litigation, with a specialty of novel and cutting-edge issues involving money laundering, market manipulation, securities fraud, cross-border litigation and investigations, cryptocurrency and health care fraud. Eric is one of the leading crypto attorneys in the country.

Eric, a seasoned courtroom advocate, has successfully litigated, as lead and co-counsel, numerous cases before federal juries and arbitrators, along with handling countless evidentiary hearings, sentencings, and other legal proceedings. Eric has also argued more than 50 appeals. When zealous, aggressive advocacy is called for, and when clients are embroiled in crises and facing the most difficult times of their lives, Eric is retained. A renowned master in the courtroom, Eric was recently featured in Law360’s “The Spiciest Quotes Heard in Massachusetts Courtrooms in 2023” as it relates to his sentencing advocacy.

Eric also has significant experience with overseas and cross-border investigations and prosecutions, including those involving alleged violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) as well as the use of Mutual Legal Assistance Treaties (MLAT), both as a prosecutor and as defense counsel. As examples, as a prosecutor in Massachusetts Eric conducted an investigation into FCPA violations by employees of PDVSA (Venezuela oil company), and as defense counsel Eric represented executives in the DOJ investigation into Odebrecht (Brazilian company) and its aftermath.

Eric served as an Assistant United States Attorney in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and Boston, Massachusetts for nearly nine years, and before that, he was an Assistant District Attorney in New York.  As a federal prosecutor, Eric prosecuted hundreds of defendants for a wide variety of federal crimes, including: wire and mail fraud, securities fraud, investor fraud, bribery, health care fraud, drug misbranding, money laundering, drug trafficking, racketeering, smuggling, and firearms offenses.  Eric developed significant expertise in securities fraud cases (including parallel investigations with the SEC), money laundering cases, bribery charges, and cases with international components.

Former Lead Prosecutor in Operation Varsity Blues

As a federal prosecutor, Eric was the lead attorney in “Operation Varsity Blues,” the seminal case widely known as the college admissions scandal, one of the largest white-collar crime prosecutions in United States history. In March 2018, Eric, while leading an unrelated securities fraud investigation, began “Operation Varsity Blues,” the investigation that led, a year later, to charges against more than 50 individuals for fraud, bribery, racketeering and money laundering offenses related to the college admissions process. Eric’s work in the landmark prosecution, which generated significant worldwide media attention, was widely profiled by national and international publications and media outlets, including the Boston Globe, the New York Times, CNN, the Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and Netflix. Eric’s role as the lead prosecutor was chronicled in the July 2020 book “Unacceptable,” written by two Wall Street Journal reporters, Melissa Korn and Jennifer Levitz, the July 2022 book “Bad City,” by Los Angeles Times reporter Paul Pringle, and a 2024 podcast called “Infamous” put out by Sony Music Entertainment. Eric is also regularly called upon by the media to speak about other, non-Varsity Blues related, news, including publications such as Coin Telegraph, Fortune, Trading View, and the Wall Street Journal, amongst others.

Eric began his legal career by serving for three years as an Assistant District Attorney in Manhattan, followed by a one-year clerkship with federal Judge Robert P. Patterson, Jr. of the Southern District of New York. Prior to founding Dynamis LLP, Eric was a partner at an elite litigation boutique with offices in New York, Boston and Miami.

Columbia Law School, J.D. (2005)

School of Oriental and African Studies, LLM (2005)

Harvard College, B.A. cum laude in Government (2000)